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Ancient history
The study of the written past from the beginning of recorded human history to the Early Middle Ages. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, starting with Cuneiform script, the oldest discovered form of coherent writing, from the protoliterate period around the 30th century BC.
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Atlantis
History; Ancient history
The legend of Atlantis, a civilization of advanced technology ans sophisticated people, dates back to 370 BC from a writing by philosopher Plato. Plato describes Atlantis to reside west of the ...
Pericles
History; Ancient history
Pericles who was born at 495 and died at 429 BC, was arguably the most prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during the Golden Age— specifically the time between the ...
Herodotus
History; Ancient history
Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey) and lived in the fifth century BC (c. 484–425 BC). He has been called "The Father of ...
Hippocrates
History; Ancient history
Hippocrates of Cos or Hippokrates of Kos (who was born at 460 and die at 370 BC), was an ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles (Classical Greece), and is considered one of the most ...
Homer
History; Ancient history
In the Western classical tradition, Homer is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest of ancient Greek epic poets. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon ...
Leonidas
History; Ancient history
Leonidas the first who died at 480 BC, was a warrior king of the Greek city-state of Sparta. He led the Spartan forces during the Second Persian War and is remembered for his heroic death at the ...
